All hail the red-haired individualist, La Roux

"But there also is a futuristic quality to La Roux's music, especially onstage, where Jackson's urgent vocals can sound as if they're coming from an especially soulful robot--she's described her voice as "falsetto in the ghetto"--and her stage presence, capped by a scarlet mane that strives to outdo anything ever sported by A Flock of Seagulls, evokes an alien of indeterminate gender. Think of the actress Tilda Swinton portraying David Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust phase, and you're still only half way there."